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52 TflE CINCINNATI ENQUIRE Thursday, July 19, 1973 injury '-Fiagued bninners jlooks mor lear uf Fieniy wasn't playing much and things seemed to be going wrong and I asked to be traded." Shinners looked across at Greg Cook, against whom he had played fcr three years in those tradl-t i a 1 Cincininati-Xavier games, and laughed. "I told 'em I missed Greg," he said. "But really, that's when I was lucky enough to come to the Bengals." So now, the 26-year-old Shinnens, married with a three-year-old daughter, maybe finally can escape the Injury jinx and prove his worth as a No. 1 draft choice. be back in uniform today, recovered from a virus infection But two injuries cropped up.

Ken Duncan, a punter from Tulsa, reinjured his right knee in passing drills and Bob Jones, a rookie defensive back from Virginia Union, injured a groin muscle in a collision during morning drills Brown likes what he sees of his rookie backs, naming Joe Wilson, Bobby Clark, and Bob McCall by" rame. "They are going to give people (veterans) seme problems," Brown said, "it look like they have possibilities. They catch well and have good instincts running to daylight." six weeks, and in the meantime (coach) Tom Fears got fired. D. Roberts became the coach, and the first game I got to play again was against Cincinnati, and we lost it, 30-20.

That didn't sit too well. "The third year, in the third week at camp, I broke my hand and missed all the preseason. Then I broke two ribs in the San Francisco game and that slowed me down all year." It was after that season that the Saints traded Shinners to Baltimore, and as he remembers it, "I had a fine camp there, but I knee in the All-Stars' game with the New York Jets in 1969, spent his first two weeks in the Saints' camp with his'knee in ice, and finally they said he was ready for the first day of practice. "We were working on a pass rush," he remembered, "when the knee just gave out. I was operated on the next day and missed the whole season." Then the second year.

"There was the player strike, and we were late to camp. I was doing pretty well, and in the fourth game at St. Louis. I fractured my elbow. I was out "My objective," he said with finality, "is not just to make the team, but to play.

I've got a lot to prove to myself. It's all up to me." BENGAL BITES Paul Brown were an orainge Bengal "staff" shirt on the field Thursday, a rarity fcr the veteran coach who usually prefers a V-neck T-shirt Rookie John Dampeer from Notre Dame was put on waivers Thursday, neither fast enough nor big enough to play guard for the Bengals. Dampeer was the Irish captain last year Wide receiver Chip Myers should By DICK FORBES Enquirer Sports Reporter WILMINGTON, Ohio "It's a big year a year of decision for me," related big John Shinners a big man in Cincinnati's college football scene for three years at the Bengals training camp Wednesday. Shinners sat on an uncomfortable steel bar bsnch outside the Bengals locker room before afternoon practice and took a good long look at things as he heads into his fifth year in pro football. He wants to forget four previous seasons.

They were hardly good years for the former Xav-ier University ail-American guard who was the No. 1 draft choice of the New Orleans Saints in 1969. His hopes and dreams have been shattered by injuries. Still, Shinners is philosophical. "No, I wouldn't call me a 'new John Shinners'," he said to a question.

"I would call it a whole new year for John Shinners. I think that's more accurate." Acquired by Cincinnati from the Baltimore Colts just before the trading deadline last year, Shinners was disappointed He didn't get to play. So how did he approach the new season, coming into camp? "I was uncertain," he said. "At least I knew the guys pretty well from last year, but I hadn't been to a Bengal camp, and I didn't know exactly how things operated. You really get to know people and coaches in camp.

"This is the best camp the teaching aspect of it. They don't drive you to the ground. I feel better the best I've felt in any training camp." He remembered that "the Bengals pushed me harder in the off-season than the other clubs (New Orleans and Baltimore). "They brought me into town more often, checked my weight, made me work on the Nautilus machines. I feel better, there's no doubt.

My legs haven't given out on me as fast." The hardest part of football, for Shinners, probably is camp. "Let me put it this way," he said, "It's no box ctf chocolates. It's three weeks of hell with a lot of repetitious routine" that he neverless concedes is necessary. The Bengals are here for seven weeks, but It's the three weeks before the first preseason game trat bothers Shinners. In Shinners' historical review of his "career" In the National Football League, "the first year was the turning point.

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We got to the meet one race before my first event." Fresh from a victory in the quarter-finals at Lexington, Lisa caught her breath and won five first places in the 50-yard freestyle, 50 butterfly, 100 individual medley and both relays. "My swimming coach, Frank Bush, used to get upset when I'd play tennis on the day of a meet," Lisa grins. "But now he says I can play anytime I want to." Unseeded despite winning a 12-and-under title and back-to-back 14-and-under crowns in her last three years of play in the Met, Lisa reached the 16-and-under finals on her first try by upsetting top-seeded Barbara Chou in Wednesday's semis. Wlnr ning numerous points with her crisp southpaw backhand, she won easily, 62, 61. "I don't like to be seeded," said Lisa, who was glad she wasn't.

"When you're seeded, it Just means everyone is going to try harder to beat you. I'd rather not be in that position." Lisa has been playing tennis since she was 10 six years after she competed in her first swim meet as a four-year-old. "I really didn't start taking tennis seriously until this year," she said. "Other years I just waited until about a week before a REUC1ED Includes labor Bonded Linings-All 4 Wheels ALL FOR $1795 INSTALLED y.s. cars BRAKE REPAIR NO CHARGE.

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"The players up there were really tougfh; they knew a lot more about the game than I did. I decided I'd have to play more. I play about two hours a day now, and I'm taking some lessons for the first time. "You have to stop swimming at a certain age," Lisa has decided. "No one keeps It up when they get older.

But you can make some money playing tennis. "Swimming now just means big shoulders and a lot of wasted time. I'm just swimming now for the fun of it, because I still enjoy it. I don't know if I'll ever be good enough, but if I get the chance I'd like to be a tennis pro." A sophomore-to-be a Villa Madonna Academy, Lisa almost played her school doubles partner, Julie Kuhlman, in today's title match. Julie, sister of former St.

Xavier High basketball star Pete Kuhi-man, was overpowered by Molly Meakin, however. Molly, whose father, Jim Meakin, is referee of the $75,000 Western Tennis Championships August 6-12 at Queen City Racquet Club, won, 62, 64. Her brother, Chuck, advanced to the boys 14-and-under semifinals at Lunken Play-field, by Doug Corn, 63, 75. He plays Mark Weber, who upset second-seeded Rick Farrel, CHAMPIONSHIP matches also will be played today In the girls 12-and-under and 18-and-under divisions. The top seeds, Ally-son Foster and Beth Jo-hann, meet for the 12 title at 10:30 a.m., and two unseeded players, Sarah Reynolds and Paula Regnold, play at 9 a.m.

for the 18-and -under crown. Miss Rsgnold upset second-seeded Nancy Plump, 61,7 6, Wednesday. The No. 1 seed withdrew at the start of the tourney. Finals of the boys 16-un-der and 18-under divisions have been postponed from midweek to Saturday at 1 p.m.

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Rocer Mouch, 6-0. 6-2; Andv Porter def. Tom 1, 6-C. BOYS 14 (Quarterfinals) John Bridaeland of. Ro-bby Kirov, 6-4, 6-1; Bob Fixler def.

Scottv Boster, 7-5, 6- 1 1 Chuck Meakin def. Douq Corn, 6-3, 7- Mark Weber def. Rick Farrell, 6-2, 6-1. MEN'S DOUBLES (Second round Bill Pendl-Steve Plump def. Dave and Dan Schick, 6-2, 6-2; Phil Heimlich-John Steele def.

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